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Record 1 1986-01-13

English

Subject field(s)
  • Graphic Arts and Printing
DEF

Printing inks which, when viewed by the optical scanner, reflect relatively little light thus appearing black to the mechanism. The scanner recognizes this black area as a mark or character and converts it to machine language

French

Domaine(s)
  • Imprimerie et arts graphiques
OBS

(...) qui, vues par le balayeur optique, semblent noires. Ce dernier identifie cette zone noire comme une marque ou un caractère qu'il convertit en langage machine

Spanish

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